Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1995
(through November, 1995)
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BOOKS:

Biow, Douglas. Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 230 pp.

Bronfman, Judith. Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale": The Griselda Story Received, Rewritten, Illustrated. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994. xiv, 162 pp.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron". Forthcoming with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Land, Norman E. The Viewer as Poet: The Renaissance Response to Art. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. 236 pp.

Lessico critico decameroniano, eds. R. Bragantini and Pier Massimo Forni (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1995). Contributors to the volume include: R. Bragantini, P. M. Forni, F. Fido, M. Picone, E. Saccone, F. Bruni, A. Stussi, C. Cazalé Bérard, C. Di Girolamo, C. Lee, C. Delcorno, V. Kirkham, G. Mazzacurati, G. Savelli, A. Battistini, P. Valesio, and V. Branca.

Stych, F. S. Boccaccio in English: A Bibliography of Editions, Adaptations, and Criticism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. xix, 254 pp.

ARTICLES:

Anderson, David. "Boccaccio's Glosses on Statius," Studi sul Boccaccio 22 (1994): 3-134.

Baldi, Andrea. "La retorica dell'exemplum nella novella di Nastagio (Decameron, V, 8): Italian Quarterly 32, 123-24 (Winter-Spring, 1995): 17-28.

Blanchard, Joël. "Compilation and Legitimation in the Fifteenth Century: Le Livre de la cité des Dames, in Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan, ed. Earl Jeffrey Richards with Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992): pp. 228-49.

Buttefield, Ardis. "Pastoral and the Poltics of Plague in Machaut and Chaucer," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 3-27.

Falvo Heffernan, Carol. "Contraception and the Pear Tree Episode of Chaucer's Merchant's Tale," Journal of English and Germanic Philology 94.1 (January, 1995): 31-41.

Forni, Pier Massimo. "Realtà/Verità," Studi sul Boccaccio 22 (1994): 235-56.

Hyatte, Reginald. "Reconfiguring Ancient Amicitia Perfecta in the Decameron 10, 8," Italian Quarterly 32, 125-26 (Summer-Fall, 1995): 27-37.

Predelli, Maria. "Lettura in filigrana della novella di Zinevra (Dec. II.9):" in Miscellanea di studi in onore di A. D'Andrea, ed. Dante Della Terza (Firenze: Cadmo, 1995).

Richards, Earl Jeffrey. "Christine de Pizan, the Conventions of Courtly Diction, and Italian Humanism," in Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan, ed. Earl Jeffrey Richards with Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992): pp. 250-71.

Smarr, Janet L. "Boccaccio's Elegia on the Use of Classics," Italian Culture,11 (1993): 127-34.

———. "The Uses of Conversation: Moderata Fonte and Edmund Tilney," Comparative Literature Studies 32.1 (1995): 1-25.

Stecopoulos, Eleni, with Karl D. Uitti. "Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames: The Reconstruction of Myth," in Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan, ed. Earl Jeffrey Richards with Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992): pp. 48-62.

Vacca, Diane Duyos. "Converting Alibech: Nunc spiritu copuleris," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 25, 2 (Spring, 1995): 207-27.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Elegia of Madonna Fiammetta Sent by her to Women in Love, tr. Roberta L. Payne and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen (New York: Peter Lang, 1992). Reviewed by: Janet L. Smarr, Renaissance Quarterly 48.1 (Spring, 1995): 151-53.

Bruni, Francesco. Boccaccio. L'invenzione della letteratura mezzana (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1990). Reviewed by: Eugenio L. Giusti, Italica 72.1 (Spring, 1995): 109-12.

Caporello-Szykman, Corradina. The Boccaccian Novella: Creation and Waning of a Genre. Studies in Italian Culture: Literature and History, vol. 2. (New York-Bern-Frankfurt am Main-Paris: Peter Lang, 1990). Reviewed by: Ernesto Vigulti, Rivista di studi italiani 13.1 (Giugno, 1995): 200-05.

Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde": "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism, ed. R. A. Shoaf (Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992). Reviewed by: William Watts, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 260-63.

Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor di virtù. Commedia in cinque atti (1548): a cura di Elissa Weaver (Ravenna: Longo, 1990). Reviewed by: Salvatore Bancheri, Italian Culture 11 (1993): 400-04; Robert M. Johnston, Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 14 (1993): 179-80.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Forme complesse nel Decameron (Firenze: Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: Francesca A. Pennisi, Speculum 69.4 (October, 1994): 1163-64.

Gittes, Katharine S. Framing the "Canterbury Tales": Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition (Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Susan M. Halloran, Envoi 3.2 (Autumn, 1992): 534-36; Kathryn McKinley, English Language Notes 32.1 (September, 1994): 74-77.

Grossvogel, Steven. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's Filocolo (Firenze: Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: Victoria Kirkham, Speculum 70.2 (April, 1995): 376-78; Ada Testaferri, Quaderni d'italianistica 15.1-2 (Primavera-Autunno, 1994): 267-69.

Hansen, Elaine. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Mary F. Wack, Modern Philology 92.4 (May, 1995): 501-05.

Illiano, Antonio. Per l'esegesi del "Corbaccio" (Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1991). Reviewed by: Eugenio L. Giusti, MLN: Modern Language Notes 110.1 (January, 1995): 209-11.

Kinney, Clare Regan. Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Eliot (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Bridget Gellert Lyons, Renaissance Quarterly 47.4 (Winter, 1994): 971-73.

Kirkham, Victoria. The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's Fiction (Firenze: Olschki, 1993). Reviewed by: Janet Levarie Smarr, Speculum 70.3 (July, 1995): 641-43.

Nissen, Christopher. Ethics of Retribution in the Decameron and the Late Medieval Italian Novella (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993). Reviewed by: Anna Laura Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 22 (1994): 350-52.

Nolan, Barbara. Chaucer and the Tradition of the "Roman Antique" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Reviewed by: James M. Dean, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 231-35; John M. Ganim, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93.3 (July, 1994): 409-11; Derek Pearsall, Modern Philology 92.2 (November, 1994): 227-29.

Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court: Courtliness Chivalry, and Courtesy From Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Douglas Kelly, Italica 72.1 (Spring, 1995): 114-15.

Stillinger, Thomas C. The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Caron Cioffi, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 282-93.

Windeatt, Barry. Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Karla Taylor, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 297-99.